Volume 1

Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon.

  • Nicholas Culpeper
Date:
[1802]
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Credit: Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    60 CULPEPER’s ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENT : then, - 2. Confider what part of the body the fign he is in -go- verns, as Aries. governs the head, Taurus the néek and throat, &c*. and be fure that part is afflicted. © | 3. Confider what part of the body the afflicting planet rules, what fien, which are under that fign, and you need ‘not queftion but that is afflifted; for example, Venus, though fhe rule many parts of the bady, yet in Scorpio fhe rules only the privities+. rus affliéts ‘the body univerfally, but efpecially the left fide. | . 5. Saturn lord of the fixth in the laft degrees of Gemini, or in the'firft degree of Cancer, caufes pain in the left fide, as though an aw] were run into it. ; fhould rather think is‘melancholy. . - 9 Ifhebe in Virgo in the twelfth houfe, fignifies pain in the head: if he be in Scorpio oriental, and flow in mo- piffing blood. e : | ‘ 8. If Saturn be lord of the difeafe, and in Aquarius, the difeafe comes by travel. “ ; | & Here the lord of the fixth, or afflicting the fixth,. ~ the planet that afflits the fixth, or planet there. + Viz. That planet, being in the fign of Venus in Virgoy ~ yules the privities, &c.- Tg - Good rules alfo you ‘may obferve, and Ithink not amifs, though any planet fhould caft out an afpect to the fixth to fee what-parts the afpeting planet governs in the fign, as well as though he were daily in that fign, and fo by afpect affli@ts that part he governs. © A 3 iy the part the afpefting: planetegoverns .in, that fign he af- ‘pects : as if any planets afpedt the aged, fee whether the platieviafpeGinig doverns firftin that figh, fo that-part-is af- fligted according to’ the nature of the. planet. affliGting. 4 tule what fign the pidnet afllicting is in, 4